WEBVTT
RTER AUBRY KILLION.
AUBRY: WE ARE NOT SHOWING
GLORIA'S FACE TO PROTECT HER
IDENTITY.
SHE SAYS A GUNMAN ORDERED HER TO
GET OUT OF HER CAR.
SHE COULDN'T WITHOUT HER WALKER.
THAT'S WHEN POLICE SAY, HE GOT
IT FOR HER.
>> ALL I COULD SEE WAS A SILVER
BARREL OF THAT GUN AND IT DIDN'T
LOOK GOO
AUBRY: POLICE SAY THE ARMED
ROBBERY TOOK PLACE MONDAY
AFTERNOON ON THE 7700 BLOCK OF
READ BLVD IN NEW ORLEANS EAST.
>> I JUST WANTED TO DO WHAT HE
SAID AND BE THROUGH I WAS SCARED
TO DEATH BUT I MANAGED AND I
DON'T KNOW HOW BUT IT KEPT MY
COOL
-- I KEPT MY COOL.
AUBRY: GLORIA SAYS HER PASSENGER
WINDOW WAS DOWN.
A MAN ORDERED HER TO STOP AND
SHE SAYS HE UNLOCKED THE DOOR
AND GOT IN
>> MY HEART SANK.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE WE WERE
DO BUT HE SAID DRIVE.
I SAID O
AUBRY: GLORIA THEN DROVE F
ABOUT 6 BLOCKS.
>> ALL OF A SUDDEN I HEAR GET
OUT AND I LOOKED AROUND AND HE
HAD HIS GUN POINTED AT ME.
>> I SAID MY WALKER IS IN THE
BACK SEAT AND I CAN'T WALK
WITHOUT IT.
I'LL GET IT.
I WAS JUST STANDING THERE IN THE
DOOR AND HE PULLED THE WALKER
OVER THERE AND I SAID I GOT TO
GET MY PHONE AND HE
GET IT HURRY UP AND ON HE WENT
AUBRY: GLORIA CALLED 911.
SHE SAYS POLICE ARRIVED IN ABOUT
5 MINUTES.
UNSURE OF HOW SHE WOULD EAT ON
THANKSGIVING SHE GOT A CALL FROM
, A DETECTIVE THURSDAY.
>> HE SAID WE WOULD LIKE TO
INVITE YOU TO COME HAVE DINNER
.
I WOULD HAVE NEVER THOUGHT THAT
WOULD HAPPEN.
THAT JUST BLEW MY MIND.
I WAS NEVER TREATED SO GOOD SO
NICE.
AUBRY: BUT BY THE TIME THE OFFER
WAS MADE SHE HAD JUST STARTED
COOKING WITH HER FAMILY.
SHE SAYS HER CAR HAS BEEN
RECOVERED AND SINCE THE SUSPECT
TOUCH HER WALKER POLICE SWABBED
, IT FOR DNA EVIDENCE.
WHAT WOULD YOU TELL THE MAN WHO
STOLE YOUR CAR AND GROCERIES
WHAT WOULD YOU TELL HIM IF YOU
COULD TALK TO HIM?
>> I THINK IT IS TERRIBLE THAT
YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING LIKE
THIS.
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW IT MAKES THE
VICTIM FIELD.
I COULD HAVE HAD A HEART ATTACK
.
I'M NOT YOUNG ANYMORE.

Gunman steals elderly woman's car, Thanksgiving groceries

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Updated: 10:28 AM EST Nov 25, 2016

NEW ORLEANS —

An 85-year-old woman in New Orleans said a man stole her car and groceries for her Thanksgiving holiday feast at gunpoint.

Gloria, who did not want to release her last name to protect her identity, said the gunman ordered her to get out of her car, but she couldn't without her walker. That's when police say the gunman removed it for her.

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"All I could see was a silver barrel of that gun and it didn't look good,” Gloria said.

Police said the armed robbery took place Monday afternoon in the 7700 block of Read Boulevard in New Orleans East.

"I just wanted to do what he said and be through,” Gloria said. “I was scared to death, but I managed, and I don't know how, but I kept my cool."

Gloria said her passenger window was down when the man ordered her to stop and, she said, he unlocked the door and got in.

"My heart sank,” Gloria said. “I didn't know where we were going or what we were going to do, but he said drive. I said, 'OK.'”

Gloria then drove for about six blocks.

"All of a sudden, I hear, 'Get out,' and I looked around and he had his gun pointed at me,” Gloria said. "I said 'My walker is in the back seat and I can't walk without it.' I was just standing there in the door and he pulled the walker over there. I said, 'I got to get my phone' and he (said) 'Get it, hurry up,' and on he went."

Gloria called 911. She said police arrived in about five minutes. Unsure of how she would eat on Thanksgiving, she got a call from a detective Thursday.

"He said we would like to invite you to come have dinner, all of you,” Gloria said. “I would have never thought that would have happened and that just blew my mind."

By the time the offer was made, she had just started cooking with her family. She said her car has been found and because the suspect touched her walker, police swabbed it for DNA evidence.

“First I think it's terrible you have to do something like this,” Gloria said. “You don't know how it makes the victim feel. I could have had a heart attack. I'm not young anymore."